geekCouch » Anthony Hemingway http://www.thegeekcouch.com Music. Movies. Random Geekdom. Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:29:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 LucasFilm’s Red Tails Has a Director and Cast http://www.thegeekcouch.com/2009/04/06/lucasfilms-red-tails-has-a-director-and-cast/ http://www.thegeekcouch.com/2009/04/06/lucasfilms-red-tails-has-a-director-and-cast/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:01:40 +0000 Sean Duregger http://www.thegeekcouch.com/?p=1336

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George Lucas‘ much discussed project Red Tails finally has a director and cast.  The LucasFilm produced movie about the Tuskegee Airmen (the first all-black, elite corps of fighter pilotes that flew for the US Air Corps in WWII).

The film will be directed by Anthony Hemingway (known so far for directing episodes of True Blood, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire) and will star Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard and Bryan Cranston.

The official Plot Synopsis has been released as well:

1944. World War II rages and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance.


Meanwhile the black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program are courageously waging two wars at once – one against enemies overseas, and the other against discrimination within the military and back home. Racial prejudices have long held ace airman Martin “Easy” Julian (Nate Parker) and his black pilots back at base – leaving them with little to do but further hone their flying skills – while their white counterparts are shipped out to combat after a mere three months of training. Mistakenly deemed inferior and assigned only second-rate planes and missions, the pilots of Tuskegee have mastered the skies with ease but have not been granted the opportunity to truly spread their wings.

As the war in Europe continues to take its dire toll on Allied forces, Pentagon brass has no recourse but to reconsider these under-utilized pilots for combat duty. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard) awards them the ultimate chance to prove their mettle high above.  Undaunted by the prospect of providing safe escort to bombers in broad daylight – a mission so dangerous that the RAF has refused it and the white fighter groups have sustained substantial losses – Easy’s pilots at last join the fiery aerial fray. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies in a heroic endeavor to combat the enemy – and the discrimination that has kept them down for so long.


Until now.

I’ll be interested to see this as it progresses.  As long as George Lucas doesn’t incorporate aliens, I think this has a lot of potential.

[Source: Collider]

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